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- ARGAKI: One of the villages occupied by the Turkish Army.
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- "To complete the factual account of what Argaki suffered: seven young men
- born in or married into the village died or disappeared during the invasion.
- Several others have been incapacitated or disfigured by wounds. There are
- well authenticated reports of sexual assaults on three elderly persons. The
- priest of Argaki comes from nearby Kyra village; his mother was killed when
- Turkish soldiers fired through the door of her house. Her husband set out for
- Argaki to bring his son, the priest, to give a Christian burial to his own
- mother. The old man disappeared, and has not been seen since.
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- One can count people dead, wounded, or assaulted, and to write five or seven
- or two gives an appearance of concreteness, of factual reality, objectivity,
- call it what you like, to the events. Here is a photograph of a corpse. There
- is a scarred face. But how can we convey objectively terror, anxiety,
- humiliation, anger, grief, disorientation, emptiness? These emotions were
- experienced by Argaki villagers (as by other refugees) and they have told me in
- their own words about them.
- ...
- The diaspora of the Greek Cypriot Argakiotes means that a link between people
- and resources has been broken, a destructive, aggressive act, the opposite of
- the creativity which constructed the community for a very long time. I do not
- know how long. There is a record of a village called Argaki in 1825, but in
- 1630, the Dutch cartographer Blau shows a community called Ariati on roughly
- the place where Argaki is today. The construction of Argaki took thousands of
- days; the destruction only one."
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- P.Loizos "The Uprooting of a Cypriot Village"
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- "Desolation and destruction mark many areas. Whole villages and towns and cities
- are empty of people, who fled their homes in fear of advancing Turkish forces.
- The 15,000 to 20,000 Greeks who remain are being held as virtual hostages
- -confined to their villages or elsewhere, and usually separated from family
- members and without adequate food and water and medical care.
- ...
- Government controlled areas of the island have been inundated with refugees from
- the north. Since the invasion on July 20, over 200,000 men, women and children
- -at least a third of the population -have sought shelter wherever they could
- find it -in open fields, under trees along the roadsides, and in schools,
- monasteries and public buildings."
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- Senator Edward M.Kennedy
- Preface to Study Mission Report of the US Senate Subcommittee to Investigate
- Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees.
- 14 October, 1974.
-